Peatlands are critical ecosystems for carbon storage and biodiversity, containing more carbon than all the world's forests despite covering just 3% of the global land surface – but new research has ...

The UK government has revealed new plans to improve the protection of peatlands, focusing on banning heather burning on ...

The upland peatlands of the UK have been severely eroded because of industrial pollution, overgrazing, drainage and other human actions. Research from The University of Manchester is helping to ...

Its ability to absorb and store carbon dioxide means peatlands are key to the UK's ambition of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. However, our peatlands are under a two-pronged attack - from the ...

Peatlands are "terrestrial wetland ecosystems ... "So you get the carbon loss from the fire and you get the carbon lost from the permafrost thaw and then a more rapid change in the land cover ...

0Three palm oil companies in Indonesian Borneo, including subsidiaries of the country’s top deforesting firm in 2023, continue to clear protected peatlands ... area map and burned area map ...